Calculate your revised Dearness Allowance and pending arrears after each Cabinet revision. Updated to DA 60% (Jan 2026).
Enter your basic pay and DA rates to compute your new monthly DA and total arrears.
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DA rates updated after every Cabinet decision. Never use a stale percentage again.
Automatically compute total arrears for any number of months since the revision date.
All calculations run locally. Nothing is sent to any server.
Dearness Allowance (DA) for Central Government employees is revised bi-annually based on AICPI-IW data from the Labour Bureau. The January revision announcement typically happens in March/April, and the July revision in September/October. From January 2025, DA stands at 60% of Basic Pay.
When DA is revised and the announcement is delayed by months, employees are entitled to arrears for the gap period. If DA was revised from 50% to 55% effective January 1, 2025, but announced in March 2025, you would receive 2 months (Jan-Feb) arrears along with the March salary. Arrears = (New DA - Old DA) x Basic Pay x Number of Months.
When DA crosses 25%, 50%, etc., HRA rates also jump by 3%. Since DA has now crossed 50%, all employees are now entitled to enhanced HRA rates. Ensure your DDO has updated your HRA accordingly.
DA is revised twice a year: effective January 1 (announced around March) and July 1 (announced around September/October). The revision is based on 12-month average AICPI-IW data with base year 2016=100.
DA arrears are paid as a lump sum in the salary of the month when the revision is formally announced. For NPS-covered employees, the arrears are subject to NPS deduction. Arrears are fully taxable in the year of receipt.
Yes. When DA crosses 25% and 50%, HRA rates increase by 3 percentage points for all city categories. The current enhanced HRA rates (X: 27%, Y: 18%, Z: 9%) are in force since DA crossed 50%.